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Title The Multicultural experiment : immigrants, refugees and national identity / edited by Leonie Kramer
Published Paddington, NSW : Macleay Press, 2003

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Description 192 pages ; 22 cm
regular print
Contents Preface / Leonie Kramer -- Legal and illegal immigration / Melanie Phillips -- Laughing jackass or kookaburra / Geoffrey Blainey -- How not to think about immigration / John O'Sullivan -- Hearts, minds and immigration / Owen Harries -- Immigration - benefiting Australia / Philip Ruddock -- Australian multiculturalism: successes, problems, risks / John Menadue -- Immigration and America's myths of itself / Lance Morrow -- Immigration and social capital in Australia / Bob Birrell -- Diversity dividends: immigrants and travelers in the American metropolis / Marilyn Halter -- Black immigration into postwar Britain: a strange case of accidental imperial implosion / Andrew Roberts -- Numbers and national identity / Robert Rowthorn
Summary Immigration and multiculturalism is a burning issue in the news media. What once seemed a settled policy framework accepted by most political shades of opinion is now being questioned widely again. In this book, some leading Australians debate the issues with British and American experts in the field
Analysis Australia Australien Einwanderung Großbritannien USA Geschichte 1990-2002 Kongress Melbourne (2002)
Australia Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century Australien Einwanderung Großbritannien USA Geschichte 1990-2002 Kongress Melbourne (2002)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ethnicity -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Ethnicity -- Social aspects.
Ethnic groups -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia.
Culture conflict -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Culture conflict -- Australia.
Multiculturalism -- Australia.
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia.
Immigrants -- Government policy -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007506 -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165
Genre/Form History.
Author Kramer, Leonie Judith Gibson.
LC no. 2004463138
ISBN 1876492104
Other Titles Multi-cultural experiment : immigrants, refugees and national identity